Apple today released Wednesday, May 6, the third public beta for iOS 13.5. This latest public beta update comes exactly one week after Apple released iOS 13.5 Public Beta 2, which included Apple and Google's joint COVID-19 Exposure Notification API. Public Beta 3 updates that settings page to display a more detailed "Exposure Registration" option instead.

Apple released this update at 1:00 PM. PDT, the company's usual release time for public beta updates. If you follow iOS beta updates closely, you know that Apple posted developers at 1:00 PM PDT 13.5 dev beta 4. Dev beta 4 is the same software as public beta 3, so we know more about this update than when we first released it.

The biggest new feature in this update is the "COVID-1

9 Exposure Logging" setting, which replaces last week's "Exposure Notifications" settings page. The new option adds a more detailed description of how the exposure registration and reporting system works. Unlike the notification setting we saw in public beta 2, this setting is currently not interactive as it requires installing an app authorized by Exposure Logging. Apple has not yet authorized an app to use this API, so the page remains locked to us.

iOS 13.5 dev beta 4 (left) vs. dev beta 3 (right).

It appears that this institution completely replaces the old notification institution. "COVID-19 exposure notifications" still appears when searching for settings, but when tapped, a link to this new log setting is created instead.

This is only the second beta under the name iOS 13.5, but the third public beta of the series. That's because the first public beta was called 13.4.5. Apple likely changed the name because of the major update, including the COVID-19 exposure notification API. The update also included a new switch to turn off auto-zooming for tiles in Group FaceTime calls, to address complaints that distracted the movement during busy calls.

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To download and install iOS 13.5 Public Beta 3, sign in through the Apple Beta site, download and install the configuration profile, and then update wirelessly. If you already have the profile, go to Settings -> General -> Software Update to start the installation of the latest beta version, or you can wait for it to install automatically if "Automatic Updates" is enabled.